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ליקוטי שמואל — Eikev 5784

Выпуск: ליקוטי שמואל — Eikev 5784. Темы: не определены автоматически. One of the main goals of the book is to show how “the Jewish community was part and parcel of Egyptian society, culture and history,” Meital said, speaking with The Times of Israel from the United States, where he has 3 been spending the year as a member of Princeton University’s Institute for Advanced Study. The “colonial regime” of British rule gave European minorities benefits and legal and economic rights if they immigrated, he said, and so “Egypt became a magnet… Egypt was a major commercial and economic hub at the turn of the 20th century, [so they could] find work and a safe place.” Tycoons and ‘sons of the earth’ These new arrivals integrated themselves into “the very strong Jewish community that existed in Egypt” at the time, Meital said. In the various synagogue archives, Meital found “a lot of requests” for donations from the Jewish Yishuv, the pre-state Zionist community in Palestine, including a letter from Hebrew University leader Judah Magnes, asking the Egyptian chief rabbi to beseech the community for donations to the fledgling university. “If you look at the architecture and items that these synagogues stored, if you look at the nonreligious activities they hosted, all this reveals the social heterogeneity and the diverse ways in which modern Jewish social-cultural identity was constructed.” For example, in less affluent synagogues, each seat would have a plaque with a number, not a name, because community members couldn’t donate enough to afford a permanent seat. 6 His research into synagogue records enabled him to reconstruct how the different Cairo Jewish communities would hold weddings and other life- cycle events, offering a window into “social and class divisions, through the synagogues.” The last generation This “Golden Age” would end within a generation after the 1948 Israeli War of Independence. “And this debate is one of the significant outcomes of what is known as the Arab Spring.” After the Arab Spring mass protest movement of 2010-2012, which in Egypt toppled longtime strongman Hosni Mubarak from power, “millions of Egyptians were exposed to revisionist representations of the Jewish past” through a series of Jewish-focused TV series, documentaries, novels and books produced in Egypt, Meital said. Wealthy families bought land and built villas in new upscale ne

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ליקוטי שמואל

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23 августа 2024 г.

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